The people you see at conferences – Updated for 2019!

Now that we are deep in Spring conference season – I thought I would update my ever popular #PeopleYouSeeAtConferences list. Now way longer than 10 items. I shall add in a few ‘suggestions from my pals on Twitter and add a few more from my travels around the FinTech universe. The old fogey who remembers
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The stories that make up FinTech continue at FinTECHTalents

“I’ve seen more startups do more demos on stage than most people should see in their lifetime,” says Liz Lumley, architect of the FinTECHTalents Festival to Christophe Langiois, CMO of The FinTech Power 50 in an interview at Barclays Rise this spring. However, that first contact, those first stirrings when you listen to a founder
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The talent pool should be an ocean

The team at VC Innovations had a full week during UK FinTech Week in London at the end of May. In between chairing sessions at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, hosting a breakfast event with HSBC and then an exclusive roundtable with JobsOhio, our Liz Lumley managed to spend a few minutes with our friends

The journey of partnership starts from within

It was standing room only in HSBC’s headquarters in Canary Wharf for a special breakfast event during the inaugural UK FinTech Week in London. Hosted in partnership with the TECHTalents Society, Strategic Investments and Partnership in FinTech, offered insights into the journey of a bank. Raman Bhatia, Head of the HSBC Digital Bank in the
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Talent can create big things

Pol Navarro, Chief Digital Officer at TSB talks about how banks can attract new talent by offering frameworks that allow them to change the rules and make big impacts immediately. “We think that the future of financial services will be about a combination of talent from different sources. People that understand banking and know how
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We need to bring women into this industry

Julie Wall, Senior Lecturer at University of East London has a call to action in order to solve both the talent gap and diversity issues in financial services and technology. “The search for talent is a big challenge at the moment. There is going to be a skills shortage, but I am optimistic that it
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The Broken Jar

I recently gave a presentation at a conference for an audience of women in financial services. I went through my journey to entrepreneurship and shared what I have learned along the way. I also spoke about the challenges of being on my own – without the corporate and administrative support that we take for granted;
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Rolling up your sleeves and getting involved

I’m very inspired by the application of technology rather than the technology itself. For us, we’re looking at a whole range of where they can best help to serve our customers better. So what we were looking at is areas such as machine learning so that we can have real insight into how to better
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Our standout stars for International Women’s Day

This International Women’s Day we decided to highlight some of our awesome Steering Committee members. We wanted to find out what they thought of robots, hear about some of the great projects they are working on as well as see whether the dreams they had as little girls match the professional lives they live today.
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Basic tech skills can change lives

“If we want products and services that are fit for purpose we need a massively diverse workforce and diverse teams to  bring all of that knowledge and experience together,” says Dr. Sue Black OBE, Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University, and all around tech icon. Speaking to Hot Topics at FinTECHTalents
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